Annual Register, 77. köideEdmund Burke Longmans, Green, 1836 |
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... sent to be used merely as instru- ments for lifting into power , men who would not manfully adopt any one of their opinions , and yet boasted their alliance as being en- gaged in a common cause . To retain their preponderance , the whig ...
... sent to be used merely as instru- ments for lifting into power , men who would not manfully adopt any one of their opinions , and yet boasted their alliance as being en- gaged in a common cause . To retain their preponderance , the whig ...
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... sent there , not because the electors liked their manners , but because they agreed with them in political sentiment , and because they thought their representatives would reform abuses . Let all who wished to see the reform of abuses ...
... sent there , not because the electors liked their manners , but because they agreed with them in political sentiment , and because they thought their representatives would reform abuses . Let all who wished to see the reform of abuses ...
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... sent occasion - namely , " You have given us offence upon one ground , or we wish to gain an ad- vantage upon one ground , but we will assign another for , depriving you of the means of rendering further service to the House of Commons ...
... sent occasion - namely , " You have given us offence upon one ground , or we wish to gain an ad- vantage upon one ground , but we will assign another for , depriving you of the means of rendering further service to the House of Commons ...
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... time ; but every body knew that the arrangement was merely temporary . He had only held the government pro- visionally for another individual During who had been sent for by his sove- reign . HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 41.
... time ; but every body knew that the arrangement was merely temporary . He had only held the government pro- visionally for another individual During who had been sent for by his sove- reign . HISTORY OF EUROPE . [ 41.
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... sent to undertake to carry on the government . But even that was not all ; for when Lord Melbourne found that he was likely to lose the aid of Lord Althorp , he declared that he should feel himself placed in great difficulty , because ...
... sent to undertake to carry on the government . But even that was not all ; for when Lord Melbourne found that he was likely to lose the aid of Lord Althorp , he declared that he should feel himself placed in great difficulty , because ...
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